Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor
A group, Christians United Against Boko Haram (CUABH), yesterday disagreed with the former and emeritus Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Cardinal Olubunmi Okogie, over his comments on the current President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, stating that there was need to apply caution on the saga.
The group called on Okogie “to be mindful of his words and avoid being used by enemies of the Body of Christ.”
Okogie took a swipe at Oritsejafor while commenting on the $9.3 million arms deal in South Africa, accusing him of establishing a university and romancing with politicians, thereby derailing from the basic tenets and principles of CAN and the leadership qualities expected from the Christian leadership.
The Executive Secretary of CUABH, Mr. Olusola Oyedokun, in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja entitled:”Okogie: Those who live in glass houses,” said the cardinal’s attack on the integrity of the current CAN president was unbecoming of a man of his personality.
He warned that “those who live in glass houses should not throw stones at the undeserving.”
Oyedokun, who is believed to be a son of the former Deputy National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and member of the Board of Trustees (BoT) of PDP, Shuaib Oyedokun, expressed disappointment that Okogie could compare his tenure to that of Oritsejafor.
He said: “As CAN President under whom a secular Nigeria was taken to the Organisation of the Islamic Conference,” Okogie ought to have refrained from attacking “the integrity of Oritsejafor whose name invokes apprehension in those who wish to entrench one religion over the others in Nigeria.
“We are surprised at Okogie for criticising Oritsejafor for opening a university and wonders whether Cardinal Okogie considers education as Haram. To recall that if opening universities was wrong, then the Catholic Church has participated in the wrong doing by being behind Madonna University. It is double standards for Cardinal Okogie to close his eyes to Madonna University and attack the pastor’s university.”
Oyedokun urged Cardinal Okogie not to act on rumour and innuendo with regards the $9.3 million that was to be used by the Office of the National Security Adviser to buy arms.
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